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whereupon he ordered fome Doors to be fhut, imagin- 
ing he fhould be able to defend himfeif till Afiiftance 
came in. 
But Francis de Chaves^ who was then with the Marquis, 
negledting to fallen the Door, and believing it had been 
fome ordinary Tumlilt that would have been eafily fup- 
prelfedbyhis Prefence, went -out, and, meeting the Con- 
fpirators upon the great Stair-cafe, demanded the Rea- 
fon of that Infolence, which they anfwered only by feveral 
mortal Wounds they gave him and rufhing forward, 
the Servants and all the Company that were with the 
Marquis fled,- except his Brother-in-law, Bon Francis de 
Alcantara^ and two of his Pages who defended the Door- 
way of the drawing Room whither the Marquis was re- 
tired for fome time. But at length the Confpirators broke 
through and killed the Marquis and his Brother, and 
the two Pages, who behaved themfelves, however, very 
bravely, and defperately wounded four of the Alma- 
grians before they fell. 
Then the Confpirators went into the Market-place again, 
declared the Tyrant was dead, and proclaimed the young 
Ahnagro Governor of Peru \ for all the Almagrians im- 
mediately aflembled when the twelve attacked the Mar- 
quis in his Palace, fecuring his Guards, and preventing 
any Afliftance coming to him. They alfo fecured all 
the Horfes and Arms in the City, and commanded all 
the Inhabitants that refufed to join not to ftir out of their 
Houfes without leave. They alfo plundered the Houfes 
of the Marquis, of his Brother Francis de Alcantara^ of 
his Secretary Pizarro^ and fome other of the principal Pi- 
zarrifts, wherein they found an immenfe Treafure. In 
the Marquis’s Pailace alone, ’tis faid they found to the 
Value of one Million of Crowns in Gold and Silver, but 
did not meddle with the Furniture, leaving it {landing 
for the Ufe of the youn^ Ahnagro, whom they had carried 
thither, after they had proclaimed him their Governor. 
Thus fell Don Francis Pizarro, in the capital City of 
Lima, which he had founded ten or eleven Years before, 
and was privately buried by his Servants, by the young 
Almagro’^ PtvmiFion noPerfon of any Figure daring at 
this Juncture to attend his Funeral, left it ihould give 
Offence to the prevailing Party. 
His Fate was very like that of his unfortunate Affociate, 
Almagro. He died a violent Death like him ; like him 
was a Vi6lifn to Ambition *, and like him went to the Grave 
in Obfcurity, after a Life of Splendor ! The Marquis 
Pizarro was never married, but had feveral Indian Con- 
cubines, fome of them Daughters and Sifters of the Incas. 
He was undoubtedly brave, prudent, endowed with 
public Spirit, and had almoft all the Qualities that are 
thought ncceffary in a great Man, together with that 
effential Ingredient, a blind and boundlefs Ambition*, 
which alone rendered him dangerous to others, and there- 
by made the Refentment of others fatal to him : For few 
fall by the Sword who know how to forgive. 
2g. As foon as it was publicly known that the Mar- 
quis Pizarro was dead, Lima, Cuzco, and moft of the 
principal Towns, declared for Don Diego de Almagro, the 
natural Son of old Almagro. Some Places, however, re- 
fufed to acknowledge Almagro" s, Authority, but expefled 
the coming of Vaca de Caftro, with the Emperor’s Com- 
miffion, in which they were encouraged by Pedro Hol- 
guin, and feveral other Generals and Oflicers *, who affem- 
bled a good Body of Troops, and took Poffeffion of 
Cuzco again, which they gave out they would hold for 
the E-mperor, and declared War againft Almagro. Alonfo 
deAlverado aflembled another Body of Troops, between 
Lima and ^ito, and declared alfo for the Emperor*, 
and tlrefe two Generals preparing to unite their Forces, 
Almagro marched out of Lima, at the Head of fix Hun- 
dred Horfe and Foot, towards Cuzco, with an Intent to 
retake the Place, or give Battle to Pedro Holguin, before 
he fliould be joined by Alonfo de Alyerado. 
This new Governor de. Caftro was, in all Refpetfts, a 
very Angular Perfon. He was a Gentleman by Birth, 
and by Profeffion a Lawyer ; but it is faid he made 
no great Agure in that Profeflion on account of the 
great Striflnefs of his Notions as to Juftice, which would 
not allow him to undertake any thing that was not 
perfeflly right, or to take any Steps in Favour even of 
a good Caufe which were not ftriflly juft as well as 
legal. The Emperor, being informed of this Man’s 
Abilities, refolved, without confulting his Minifters, to 
make ufe of them in a Manner much fuperior to their 
Owner’s Expedations. I will free, faid he, the Bar from 
this ftrange Fellow, and fee what his Probity will be 
able to do in the Indies. He came without Money 
or Forces, but, by the Accident before mentioned, 
found two Armies ready to receive him, upon which he 
went diredly to Lima, where he caufed himfeif to be 
proclaimed Governor of Peru but fuch a Governor Ame- 
rica had never feen before. He fhewed himfeif an ab- 
folute Stoic ; he threatened no body, he flattered no body , 
he aded like a Governor, but he lived like a private Per- 
fon : He fhewed no Refped to Perfons, nor made any 
Diftindion between Indians and Spaniards. 
The People were amazed at Aril, but in a few Weeks 
he was obeyed with that Submiffion no Tyrant ever ex- 
aded, merely becaufe the People faw he meant nothing 
but their Good. He marched againft young Almagro, m 
September, 1542, with a very powerful Army ^ upon 
which that young Gentleman fent two Deputies to treat 
of a Peace, and to propofe various things in his Name ; 
feveral of his Oflicers writing to the Governor on his 
Behalf and their own, reprefenting that they had been 
always good Subjeds, and were deArous of continuing lb j 
that they were driven into their prefent Condition by the 
Cruelties of the Marquis, and that they were willing to 
fubmit upon reafonable Conditions. The Governor 
would never talk upon the Subjed ; he faid he had all 
the Authority from the Emperor that Prince could give, 
that he had done no body any hurt by Virtue of that Au- 
thority i but had done, and would do, all the Good he 
could. He faid farther, that fuch as obeyed him were 
the Emperor’s good Subjeds, to whom he would behave 
as their Governor ; that for fuch as aded otherwife they 
were Rebels, who in time would find a Judge that would 
never depart from the Letter of the Law, but would 
punifli as that direded him to do *, for, though as a Man j 
he was compaflionate, yet, as an Officer of Juftice, he 
knew not what Pity was. 
The Report of the Governor’s Condud was far enough 
from giving Satisfadion to youn^ Almagro, and thofe about 
him *, therefore Orders were fent to his Deputies to make , 
ftill greater Offers, in cafe Almagro might be fuffered to 
refide at Cuzco and to enjoy his Father’s Government 
without Moleftation, till the Emperor fhould decide this 
great Controverfy, having already all the neceffary Lights 
given him by the Agents on both Sides, hy James Alverado 
and Ferdinand Pizarro, from whom News was fuddenly 
expeded, which might prevent the EffuAon of Spanijh 
and Chriftian Blood ; But Vaca de Caftro_, inftead of 
treating with Almagro, endeavoured to gain his Officefs, 
and induce them to defert him which Almagro dif- 
covering, both Parties prepared for Battle, and drew up 
their Troops in the Vale of Chupas. Thefe little Armies 
were both compofed of Veteran Officers and Soldiers. 
The Governor had the Advantage in Point of Numbers^^ 
his Troops confifting of feven hundred Spaniards befides 
Indians, and Almagro"^ of five hundred Spaniards *, but 
then the latter had the Advantage of a Train of Artillery, 
and of good Ground, and would probably have gained 
the Vieftory if all his Officers had been true to him *, for 
his Artillery was fo pointed that the Enemy could not 
approach his Camp on any Side without conAderable 
Lofs. However, to his Amazement, when the Cannon 
were fired, they did no manner of Execution, and the 
Enemy advanced as if they had nothing to fear from the 
Artillery : Whereupon Almagro made up to Pedro de' 
Candia, who commanded the great Guns, and, fufpebling 
Treachery, killed him with his own Hands, and level- 
ling one of the Cannon himfeif cut off a w^hole Rank of 
the Governor’s Troops, putting the Army in Diforder. 
But the Enemy were now advanced too near his Train 
of Artillery to fuffer from them, and his Men had quit- 
ted the Ground where they were fo advantageoufly drawn 
up to meet the Enemy, which occafioned the Lofs of the 
Battle, though it .was fought with great Obftinacy till 
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